248 NOTES ON SOME BURMESE BIRDS. 



The bill is a pale yellow, uniform throughout ; the toes, 

 fleshy brown ; the claws pale horn color ; the feathers of the 

 tarsus in front reach to about a tenth of an inch from the joint 

 of the middle toe and behind somewhat further up ; the toes 

 are perfectly naked ; the ear tufts measure 1*2. 



Mr. Sharpe's description is so minute and corresponds so 

 well with my bird that any lengthy account of the plumage 

 is unnecessary for these pages, more especially as the coloration 

 of this Owl is distinct, and the size suffices to separate it from 

 others. 



The whole upper plumage is a rather rich chestnut; the wings 

 barred on the inner webs with brown, and the tail irregularly 

 banded with the same. Each feather of the upper body 

 plumage has small arrow head fulvous marks in the centre, and 

 some wavy narrow black lines across ; the forehead, for a 

 depth of nearly an inch, a broad supercilium, and the inner 

 webs of most of the tuft feathers are white; the shafts of the 

 feathers of the forehead nearly black ; the tips of the tufts 

 and the top of the head are a darker chestnut than the back 

 and without marks of any sort; long feathers on the sides 

 of the neck, indicating a ruff whitish, broadly tipped with 

 blackish ; lower surface light buff, the shafts of the feathers 

 of the throat black, and the webs vermiculated with brown ; 

 breast with dark brown small shaft spots and brown narrow 

 vermiculations; belly and vent distinctly spotted, only not 

 cross barred. The outer webs of the scapulars are fulvous 

 white, and there are some rather large black shaft spots on the 

 feathers. 



[Davison shot a female of this species a good deal further 

 north at Meetan on the 28th of February. 



It measured in the flesh : — Length, 109 ; expanse, 235; tail, 

 50; wing, 7 -4; tarsus, 1*2 ; bill from gape, 0'9; weight, 

 4'74 oz. In the fresh bird the soft parts were as follows : — 



Feet and claws bluish white; bill, bluish white; cere, pale 

 bluish green ; irides, deep brown. 



I don't think this is a very rare bird ; it seems to be 

 commonly procured by the Malacca shikarees. — A. 0. H.] 



584 quat— Henicurus frontalis, Blyth. 



Two specimens of a Forked Wag-Tail from South Tenasserim 

 are clearly referable to this species and not to Leschenaulti. 

 They were procured at Malewoon or its vicinity on the 6th 

 January. 



An adult, a female, has the wing 35 ; the tail, 3*7 ; forked 

 to the extent of ] *6 ; bill from anterior corner of nostril to 

 tip, 51 ; tarsus, 11. 



